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Libraries are an important part of society today as they provide equal access to all who use it. It is home to a wide variety of resources such as internet, technology, literary resources, and information—all made free to the public through the…

This article examines how searching an online image archive and its metadata in an can be incredibly limited - and may even yield incorrect results - due to the lack of information on how the image was created as well as deeper details about the…

This article explains the significance of online platforms for memory preservation, especially through the complete digital shift that Covid-19 implemented across the globe. It argues for more consumer accessible digital archives.

This book examines various approaches to digital preservation of Indigenous history, culture, and communication. Historically, those aspects are passed orally through family as opposed to officially recorded and stored, risking the loss of…

This article explores social media as a means of an everyday civilian’s personal archives through survey data. Through this, a deep analysis is made into how social media companies can implement long-term and permanent digital preservation efforts in…

This book explores different methods of digital preservation that are used by archivists across various institutions through a digital humanities lens. It addresses not only the benefits of new technology, such as AI, but also how the negative…

Archiving has become an increasingly complex process. While preserving data is a challenge, this has evolved into finding a method to preserve data more efficiently, and make sure that data can keep its authenticity and integrity over a period of…

Social media and the internet has become a major presence in the lives of people that we have curated our own identities online, but what happens to this digital footprint once someone passes away? Even as the number of users and accounts on the…

Digital technologies dominate society today in ways likely not imagined when the first computers emerged in the 1950s. Phones and computers are an integral part of life, and with these technologies we as individuals are always creating new data. This…